Lollipop Magazine

Jolie Holland To Release New Album Pint of Blood – News

May 6, 2011

Anti-Records is thrilled to announce the release of Jolie Holland’s new album Pint of Blood on June 28th.

Youth Group – Casino Twilight Dogs – Review

January 1, 2007

Second release by these Aussies, still well-crafted indie rock, still right on my threshold for lilting. Still worshipping The Smiths.

Greg Graffin – Cold as the Clay – Review

August 4, 2006

Old timey instrumentation and folk surroundings allow Graffin’s (as always) ingenious hooks to breathe in the open spaces and appropriate accompaniment.

Youth Group – Skeleton Jar – Review

May 24, 2005

Singer/songwriter stuff that doesn’t make me want to hurl, or kick the shit out of the whining pussy. Not as huge as Manchester pop, more intimate.

Tom Waits – Real Gone – Review

April 25, 2005

Real Gone is a return to the territory Waits has rummaged through for the past 20 years or so, with a few surprises thrown in to make sure nobody gets bored.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus – Review

December 27, 2004

Cave’s love of Cohen, Waits, and Cash is sublimated into an intoxicatingly passionate collection of songs that bears no connections to their forefathers.

The Promise Ring – Wood/Water – Review

October 28, 2002

How people continued to lump them with The Get Up Kids is beyond me. Wood/Water is a mature, thinking album, like Wilco writing acoustic songs for The Smiths.

Tom Waits – Blood Money – Review

August 16, 2002

Imagine a drunk, homeless guy with a voicebox shouting about dwarfs and roosters being accompanied by other drunk homeless guys banging on street signs.

Tom Waits – Alice – Review

August 16, 2002

Alice is actually a bit of a throwback, a re-visitation of the more overtly sentimental work of his heavily orchestrated, faux-beatnik early period.